Selenium: Why my get_cookies() method returned a list in Python?

Question

Below is my script:

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

driver.get(\"http://www.google.com\")

all_cookies = dr         


        

Answer 1

Cookies contain a lot more information than simply name and value information, for example expiration date, domain, etc. Therefore, a simple key/value pair is not sufficient. If all you're interested in ONLY the name and its corresponding value, then I'd do something similar to the following to construct your own dictionary:

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
cookies_list = driver.get_cookies()
cookies_dict = {}
for cookie in cookies_list:
    cookies_dict[cookie['name']] = cookie['value']

print(cookies_dict)